J A Baker - The Peregrine (1er/1er 1967 Royaume-Uni hb w économies dw) nature écriture prix gagnant

Title: The Peregrine
Author: J A Baker
Published: 1967
Publisher: Collins, London
First edition/first impression (‘Collins St James's Place, London 1967'); UK; hardback with dust wrapper(not price-clipped, showing 21s. net); covered in clear, removable protectivewrapper

Very Good+/Very Good+ : a little bumping at head & foot of spine, abit of discolouration to front free endpaper, otherwise clean & unmarked;dust wrapper has some colour fading to spine and edges of front panel

Thefirst published book by English author John Alec Baker (his second and onlyother book being 1969's The Hill of Summer).

Generallyconsidered to be one of the best books of nature writing, The Peregrinerecounts a single year from October to April from the authors ten-yearobsession with the peregrines that wintered near his home in Chelmsford, Essexin eastern England.

InJanuary 2018, The Peregrine was included by the Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council in a list of 10 contenders to find the UKs favourite bookabout nature. Robert Macfarlane deemed The Peregrine to be "amasterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction", and Werner Herzog called itthe "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films”. The bookwon the Duff Cooper literary prize in 1967.Any questions, please don'thesitate to ask, and please take a look at my other items for rare &collectable books for sale.

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